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Be Given to the Soil

by Over the Ocean

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1.
Herons 04:17
you can see the herons fly across the lake you can hear those lonesome wretched sounds they make I have seen my own soul reflected on the water I have seen the sky turn black and a storm is coming, a storm is coming on and I say to myself I have always been a good man never hurt anyone but I can be cruel, I can be cruel just push me now and see what I can do there’s a distance my legs will never cross between the sacred and the obscene
2.
Riverbed 05:25
my friend died in a car crash spun out on the ice rolled into a riverbed it’s a hard thing to understand tires up with the headlights on and the water rushing left until the morning came it’s a hard thing to understand when you take all the best for yourself when you take and you take and you take
3.
I don’t want to worship a god I made in my own image and what’s the use of a savior who depends on my righteousness maybe I’ve been seeing things wrong maybe I don’t know you at all maybe I’ve been seeing things wrong maybe you’re not so much like me oh holy ghost please unravel my illusions when the perfect comes the imperfect will pass away when I know you my perceptions won’t mean anything Who are you can I know you in this life in this body with this sick, apathetic heart or am I too far when the perfect comes the imperfect will pass away when I know you my perceptions won’t mean anything so show me who you are show me who you really are
4.
Obscene 07:03
When I said your name, I made it obscene. Your beautiful name, the name that sounds like cool water, was a curse in my mouth. I meant to say it like light on the edges of clouds, but it came out filthy. Believe me I thought about it. I thought about it, and I decided I would never say your name again. But I couldn’t do it. Because the time you said my name, you made it sound like it never sounded before. You made it sound like the day the azaleas bloom. After the rain, when the colors are so bright, and the birds fly in and out of the bushes, that’s what you called me. So here I am, putting the perfect word in a rusty can to drag behind me. I rattle and clang, and even whisper when I have to, just hoping you’ll say it again. I know the curtain was torn but there is still this veil of skin and bone that divides you and me
5.
sometimes in silence I feel your wings across my face you live so close the air in my lungs and so far places my body cannot go you hide yourself in a black cloud thunder and lightning all around how can you live inside of me how can I live inside of you
6.
you are my home I kiss the ground you’ve walked across I throw my body down across your muddy path you have shown to me the way of life I have no love outside of you there is no love outside of you
7.
Owl 06:49
You know I went blind years ago, from staring at a woman in flames I was a kid with no shame and she stood naked in that cave and now all I see is her silver silhouette and now all I see is her silver silhouette There is a spirit who crosses these woods at night I only know him from the sound of his wings beating the air, breaking branches, scattering the leaves sometimes he calls to me, but I just haven’t got the ears to hear In these quiet and snowed in woods among the withered leafless trees you may see by the light of a forgotten day a spotless owl spread his wings fly away toward a purple gleam on the horizon fly away toward a purple gleam and you can hear him sing O, open your eyes this world is not so black and white there is a color that will not die the dawn of the day that never ends the dawn of the day that never ends the dawn of the day that never ends
8.
I come here to find you to let you speak whatever is on your mind I will not interrupt I will not twist your words I will not plug my ears and tell you that I can’t hear you are not who I thought you were I spent my whole life talking about what you’ve said arguing philosophies trying to give you a name Spent my whole life but now I’m through with arguing philosophies trying to give you my name The earth and sky shake at the weight of your words and I saw the rain fall I heard you speak I heard you speak straight into me In the silence of snow in the stillness of cold in the frozen air I find you there
9.
Ecology 02:52
when I am returned to you it will be with the greatest joy though I have understood nothing in this life you have shown me only kindness and beauty. so let my unpreserved body be given to the soil let the continents drift let the valleys be raised up and let the mountains slide into the great blue ocean
10.
When I am far you are not far from me when I am running you are not far from me I was born to know you in this darkness I will find you you are not far you are not far you are not far you are not far
11.
I tore my mother when we parted and I tore my lover when we first joined now she carries a piece of me inside of her I will carry a piece of her upon my shoulders oh, you are a holy mystery I say your name is love and it’s as close to truth as I may ever come I call you divine but still you frustrate me why is it love always means someone has to bleed and I know you bleed My thoughts are not your thoughts

about

From the very beginning, Over the Ocean set out to create music that stops listeners in their tracks. Listening to the band's new album, "Be Given to the Soil," is as if you were sitting in a room watching them sweat out every ounce of passion that was poured tirelessly into each song. Thematically and musically, the arrangements are darker, heavier and more sparse at points than the band's previous effort, all the while delivering the same level of lyrical complexity that fans grew to love on their debut. "Be Given to the Soil" swan dives right into the soul, plunging the unexplained inner depths of the human condition. From start to finish the record offers raw, gut-wrenching wrestling with the eternal. Each song proclaims the loudness of humanity’s inner life – truth, doubt and struggle wrapped up in a disturbingly clear package.

In an era of the immediate and temporary, Over the Ocean has crafted something timeless. "Be Given to the Soil" is not for the faint of heart and mustn't be approached half-heartedly. You will either be sonically immersed into a landscape of seeming sonic dysfunction held together by a heart-piercing rhythm section, or you will refuse its advances altogether. "Be Given to the Soil" is available now exclusively on limited edition double vinyl on Seattle's Spartan Records.

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released April 30, 2013

Engineered, Produced and Mixed by Jeremy S.H. Griffith at Singing Serpent Studios in New York City.

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